Books, ebooks, and audiobooks. Which one is the best?

Nowadays when it comes to reading, we have too many choices about the carriers which are physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.

Maybe in every style, we could say some things from our own perspective.

I am curious about what everyone here thinks of each format. What do you all think are the pros and cons ( the favorable and the unfavorable factors or reasons or advantages and disadvantages. ) of each format? Which do you think is the best one? I am hoping we could have a great and interesting discussion on this meaningful topic.

Some think that print books are the best reading experience.

This is why I love books? For 8 reasons and 6 benefits.

They list the reasons here :

• The Feel of Paper, The feel of turning pages and the smell of the papers are the vital factors that others can never take place of a physical book.
• Visual Benefits.
• The paper books help to focus.
• We could share a printed book you loved with a friend or family with ease.
• Flexibility in Annotating, Annotating and making notes in a printed book is really easy, whereas it’s very limited in other format.

Some think that ebooks are the best.

The reasons are as follows:

• Pricing Considerations, If you read a lot, ebooks should be more cost-effective than printed books.
• Convenience: Instant Access to thousands of books
• Quick Navigation and Search, we always could gain convinience from this function.
• Highlighting & Bookmarking

But some think that audiobooks are the best format.

Cause now we live a more fast pace life than before and everyone is in a quite busy status. Time is divided into pieces, which we always call pockets of time, and in this case, audiobooks are absolutely the best format than others and we could make full use of pockets of time everywhere. No matter what you do and where you are. Maybe when walking on the road, taking the bus or subway, and even when we have a break rest. And the audiobooks also have some obvious advantages here.

• Multitasking, Whether you are doing household chores, cleaning, cooking meals, or driving on your daily commute, there is no question that audiobooks help busy readers read more.
• Pronunciation, The narrator of the audiobook reads everything to you, thus tells you how to pronounce the words. It is also a huge benefit especially for kids to know the right pronunciation of the words.
• Better Comprehension, When you’re listening to the audiobook, you are much more likely to extract the gist of what someone meant when the narrator reads to you in an emotional tone. This kind of feeling is really good and nice.
• Enjoyment. When we’re on travelling, audiobooks enable us to escape from boredom and got more knowledge which we’re interested in.

So as what you see. Every coin has two sides. Every format has its own advantages. Then what is the best one for you?

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